Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 26 April, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: a  d  i  n  o  t  x

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD8 β€” a smaller structure added to a main building; something added (as by growth); the act or process of becoming greater in number; annex; extension sounds like audition

AN

  1. AN5 β€” sounds like canyon, onion
  2. AN10 β€” a written explanation, observation, etc. that is added to something (such as a book); comment; note; reflection; remark sounds like agitation, connotation, imitation, inhalation, innovation
  3. AN6 β€” to rub an oily or sticky substance over; bedaub; besmear; daub; smear sounds like appoint
  4. AN4 β€” at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon
  5. AN4 β€” opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty
  6. AN11 β€” sounds like accident
  7. AN9 β€” sounds like toxin

AT

  1. AT6 β€” sounds like taxi
  2. AT6 β€” to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain

AX

  1. AX4 β€” sounds like accede, access, action, con, icon

DA

  1. DA4 β€” a collection of factual knowledge about something; a single piece of information; facts; information; detail sounds like donna, dot, dotted

DO

  1. DO8 β€” a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution; something given to someone without expectation of a return; alms; benefaction; beneficence sounds like damnation, dilation, duration, location, nation
  2. DO6 β€” a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember; a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; something that decorates or beautifies; dingus; doohickey sounds like dad

IN

  1. IN10 β€” the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization; baptism; inaugural; inauguration; induction sounds like affiliation, delineation, enumeration
  2. IN10 β€” as in inflection; inflection; accent; accentuation; emphasis

IO

  1. IO4 β€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” sounds like nod
  3. NA5 β€” a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects; dryad; hamadryad; nymph sounds like acid, added, arid, avid, blood
  4. NA4 β€” sounds like manna
  5. NA6 β€” sounds like latent
  6. NA6 β€” a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions; a form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language live in a particular area under one government; commonwealth; country sounds like notion

NO

  1. NO8 β€” a usually brief written reminder; jotting; memo; memorandum; note sounds like rotation

OX

  1. OX7 β€” sounds like accident
  2. OX9 β€” sounds like occupation, oscillation

TA

  1. TA5 β€” a mark of guilt or disgrace; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; blot; brand sounds like faint, feint, paint, saint, tent
  2. TA6 β€”
  3. TA6 β€”
  4. TA4 β€” sounds like toxin
  5. TA8 β€” sounds like fixation
  6. TA4 β€” as in hack, chauffeur; an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled; as in liner, airliner; chauffeur; hack sounds like waxy
  7. TA5 β€” sounds like toxin

TI

  1. TI5 β€” something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten

TO

  1. TO4 β€” a person whose behavior is offensive to others; bastard; beast; bleeder; blighter sounds like bode, code, goad, load, mode

addition, anion, annotation, anoint, anon, anti, antioxidant, antitoxin, ataxia, attain, axon, data, donation, doodad, initiation, intonation, iota, naan, nada, naiad, nana, natant, nation, notation, oxidant, oxidation, taint, tannin, tattoo, taxa, taxation, taxi, taxon, titan, toad